# In defence of Russia

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**Created:** [August 6, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defence-of-russia/969166 "2022-08-06T00:49:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defence-of-russia/969166/368 "2022-09-19T22:05:30Z")

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Also it isn’t as if we aren’t skeptical of pro-Ukraine sources. In the MPSIMS Ukraine thread there are many cases where the posters acknowledge that a given report from the Ukraine may be biased. Example.

> [@Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24/960037/8198):
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> Your link is from Yahoo, quoting a Ukrainian source. I still use an old email account at Yahoo, so I check the site every day, and it always feeds me several links from Ukrainian news sources. Sources which are , of course, biased. The headlines are always upbeat and encouraging. Even when Mauripol was being destroyed, the headlines Yahoo displayed said things like “heroic fighting in Maruipol is slowing the Russians down.” So I hope your link is true…but let’s see if some other internation…

We recognize that Ukrainian and western sources may be biased, but Russian sources are guaranteed to be biased.

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